Part B: How has the addition of the picture panels affected the usefulness of the site as a source of information on the Pinney family?
The Georgian house was made in 1796 It was built by John Pinney, a sugar merchant who owned both land and slaves. The house has many rooms some are listed below:
- The Kitchen and laundry
- Breakfast and dining rooms
- Sitting Room
The house itself is now a museum, the Georgian house was refurbished to what an 18 century family would live like (John Pinney and Family) by the council and historians, all the furniture in the house is not John Pinney’s but is virtually identical to the furniture he had in his house, the only piece of the furniture which belonged to Pinney which is still in the building is a Bookshelf and a desk which is in the Sitting room of the house where you would enter. The Reason why the virtually identical furniture was used in this house was to show how John Pinney lived and also why he may have chosen Bristol to live in.
I am going to use two of the rooms in the house as sources and explain the Provenance (What is it? When was it made? Why was made? Primary/Secondary?), Reliability (Trustworthy), Usefulness (What does it tell us) and Limitations (What it doesn’t tell us). The two rooms I am going to analyse as a source are the sitting room and dining room as these seem to be the most rooms which give the vibe of a lot of information. After I am going to use the Picture panels which were added in the house in the 1990’s about slavery and talk about them as sources.